Ebola? Who Cares?? It's all about MERS now.

[Gwladys St. Glory]

The chances of spreading from these two cases is minimal.

That's already too high...jettison them over an active volcano, I say.

 

[RAFUH]

It's not that contagious - much closer to HIV than flu viruses

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

It's not that contagious - much closer to HIV than flu viruses

You may be educated but you're still a drug dealer...not to be trusted! This is the age of overreaction, I will take my concerns to Twitter!

Ohh, a cat video...what?

 

[RAFUH]

Go on! You know ya wanna....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Oh em gee

They'll find in him the hills, running away from Eboue.

 

[magicjuan]

Apparently requires direct contact with bodily fluids.

Here's one to watch GOTers - surviving men can transmit via semen for 7 weeks after recovery.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

Apparently this strain they believe can be transmitted airborne. This one isn't ebola Zaire which caused the last outbreak, but a mutation, and when these things mutate the scientists tend to cack themselves.

This needs a closer watch, that much stuff going on at the moment to distract, easy to take your (bleeding) eye off the ball.

 

[russiandog]

No wonder the commonwealth games are sh1te or less than good.

 

[Groucho]

Go on! You know ya wanna....

I knew this'd come in handy again.....

 

[bluelife]

This is terrifying

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

i must admit i am a little ignorant on this subject and it may seem rather callous, but why bring the virus to a country which has never had it? I sympathise for the two American doctors that have contracted it through helping others but why risk further contamination and the lethal spreading of a known highly infectious disease in another country?

From all accounts the death rate is 90% so what are they hoping to achieve by bringing it to the US? Is it more so that Doctors can see first hand the virus at work, or is it a rather futile attempt to save two lives?

Again forgive me for my ignorance, its a subject i am not well versed in.

The virus will already be there in labs being studied. With proper procedure there should be miminal risk.

 

[arminisgod]

Right, this strain has a death rate of about 50% not as high as being reported. The virus is very weak, easy to kill and only spreads by fluidly contact.

It would be easily contained in a developed health system.

 

[RAFUH]

Apparently this strain they believe can be transmitted airborne. This one isn't ebola Zaire which caused the last outbreak, but a mutation, and when these things mutate the scientists tend to cack themselves.

This needs a closer watch, that much stuff going on at the moment to distract, easy to take your (bleeding) eye off the ball.

Where did you read this? I kept a pretty close eye on all the info coming and haven't seen this.

 

[Blue Wiz]

It's not that contagious - much closer to HIV than flu viruses

If you touch the skin of someone who is sick with Ebola you might get it since it can transfer by sweat. You do need contact to bodily fluids though, so as long as you don't touch anyone sick with it you're fine. And it's not contagious in the incubation stage, only after the person has turned ill.

 

[RAFUH]

If you touch the skin of someone who is sick with Ebola you might get it since it can transfer by sweat. You do need contact to bodily fluids though, so as long as you don't touch anyone sick with it you're fine. And it's not contagious in the incubation stage, only after the person has turned ill.

Right. All of this is part of the reason why panic about it running rampant in US/UK is not warranted. Although highly virulent, not highly contagious when universal precautions are used.

 

[magicjuan]

Where did you read this? I kept a pretty close eye on all the info coming and haven't seen this.

Theres a few live blogs and sites carrying the story, will try and post if I can dig out later, one in particular was from a missionary group who were helping at some place helping out, one of them, a US doctor got the virus and other members were blogging.

They'd been there from the outset and were saying that the situation is much worse than being reported, on top of that, once medical staff, specialists in preventing contagion from non airborne virus start getting the virus....